Dr Robin Niblett
Director, Chatham House
Dr Robin Niblett became Director of Chatham House (the Royal Institute of International Affairs) in January 2007. Founded in London in 1920 and ranked in 2009 as the world's leading non-US international affairs institute, Chatham House serves as a forum for informal debate of the most pressing challenges to global security and prosperity and as a source of independent analysis and ideas for decision makers in government and the private sector.
Before joining Chatham House, from 2001 to 2006, Dr Niblett was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Washington based Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), one of America's largest and most influential foreign policy think tanks.
Dr Niblett's principal substantive interests are European integration and transatlantic relations. During his last two years at CSIS, he also served as Director of the CSIS Europe Program and its Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership.
Most recently he is the author of the Chatham House Report, Ready to Lead? Rethinking America's Role in a Changed World (2009) and editor of the forthcoming book America and a Changed World: A Question of Leadership. He is also the author or contributor to a number of CSIS reports, including Test of Will, Tests of Efficacy: The Initiative for a Renewed Transatlantic Partnership (CSIS, 2005), From Shadows to Substance (CSIS, 1995) and The Atlantic Alliance Transformed (CSIS, 1992). He is contributing author and co-editor with William Wallace of the book Rethinking European Order (Palgrave, 2001).
Dr Niblett is leading the Chatham House project on Rethinking the UK's International Ambitions and Choices.
Dr Niblett is a frequent panellist at conferences on transatlantic relations. He has testified on a number of occasions to US Senate and House Committees on European Affairs. He regularly provides commentary to the media, including BBC, ITN, CNN, National Public Radio and the Newshour with Jim Lehrer. Dr Niblett has also contributed articles to the Financial Times and other UK broadsheets.
Dr Niblett received his BA, MPhil and DPhil from New College, Oxford.